The frontier of loyalty : political exiles in the age of the nation-state / Yossi Shain ; with a new preface.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Shain, Yossi, 1956-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loyalty.

Exiles--Political activity.

Exiles.

Governments in exile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paperback edition of the pathbreaking book on the role of exiles in international relations, with a new foreword (including material on the war in Iraq). "In a world increasingly shaped by transnational organizations and processes, this is a timely and welcome subject, and Yossi Shain provides an informative overview." --Rogers Brubaker, Harvard University, in The American Journal of Sociology "Engrossing." -- International Affairs "Mr. Shain is at his best stitching together information that hitherto had not been systematically related to analytical themes. . . . A major contribution to understanding the patterns and complexities of the politics of those at home abroad." -- International Migration Review " The Frontier of Loyalty is the first comprehensive and theoretically oriented study of exile politics; the types of exile activity; the relation to both the home and host governments; and the difficulties and ambiguities of exile politics, particularly the struggle for legitimacy as spokesman for the opposition at home and for recognition from the outside." --- Juan J. Linz, Yale University "An ingenious and sensitive analysis of political exiles as 'voice from without, ' which contributes to our understanding of the transnational character of contemporary politics." --- Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research "Drawing upon a wide literature on contemporary political exiles, Yossi Shain presents a sophisticated, learned and sensible survey of their place in political life today. More important, his meditation on the role of exiles proves such essential political categories as legitimacy, national loyalty, and opposition in the modern state. One test of any work of scholarship is whether it enhances our understanding of concepts that we have previously taken for granted. By this measure, Shain's book passes with flying colors." --- Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-200) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612593895

9781282593893

1282593897

9780472026128

0472026127

OCLC:

615635630